![]() ![]() And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. The women and the children watched their men talking to the owner men. In the open doors the women stood looking out, and behind them the children-corn-headed children, with wide eyes, one bare foot on top of the other bare foot, and the toes working. The tenant men stood beside the cars for a while, and then squatted on their hams and found sticks with which to mark the dust. And at last the owner men drove into the dooryards and sat in their cars to talk out of the windows. The tenants, from their sun-beaten dooryards, watched uneasily when the closed cars drove along the fields. They came in closed cars, and they felt the dry earth with their fingers, and sometimes they drove big earth augers into the ground for soil tests. ![]() THE OWNERS OF THE land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman for the owners came. ![]()
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